Basshole Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 What is your influences? How do you come up with a melody you are trying to acheive? What do you like to talk about in your songs? Do you like to write happy, sad, or songs about sex, drugs and rock and roll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solacematt Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Silverchair. It happens. Whatever happens happens for a song lyrically. I don't try and write about depressing stuff, it just happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamienAzrael Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I write songs that are either about women, drinking, or just something blasphemous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I'm a writer. They come to me in different ways. Like one day I saw a sign at a trailer park. It read, "Luxury living with a heated pool". That turned into a song. It's easy. Wild Cherry lips shinny painted finger tips luxury living with a heated pool penthouse playmate's life is cool this has been copy writed so no stealing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Good question I know several writers that work in very different methods and styles. I usually do lyrics first then when I have something I want to say the message is what set's the tone and style for the melody and music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I always start with a groove and develope a basic musical structure, once I have that I come up with a vocal melody and once I have that the words just fall in place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daerious Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 My songs usually start out as letters i never intend to send. Most of my songs are consequently about love, or lack there of, which also means consequently they are often about what I've done wrong. I spend quite a bit of time just goofing around, not playing songs, just playing chords in random. When the right chords come out that creates a certain feeling... I dig out the letter notebook and find the right letter. I also rip people off a lot, I'll play some gnr or metallica and just plug in my own words, then adjust the rhythm of those, and throw in a minor here or there to set that depressed mood. It seems most of my songs end up with a lot of a d and e minor, even when they start out as being g-d-c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 The few times that I've ever been able to write anything decent (and that's a relative term) is when it's just come to me without much effort. Amost spontaniously. The way my mind works, I'm always finding connections and comparisons between different lyrics, melodies, subject matter etc. When I try to come up with a melody or lyrics, it seems like I always end up subconsciously copying something else, or try trying so hard NOT to copy something else that I can't come up with anything. Plus, the way I see it, there's so much great stuff allready written or still being written by professionals that nothing I could come up with would hold a candle to it. If I have a talent, it's in imrovising and adding some original parts to an existing idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I mostly write instrumental guitar music. These days I have maybe 4 songs with words and I'll write the words first then find a melody then build the chords around the melody. For the instrumental music it's usually one of two ways. 1. Develop the melody first then build the rhythm around it. or 2. Develop a catchy rhythm, find a melody and play, then record the rhythm and tweek the melody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Hmm, I never really think about it. Sometimes I write an entire song in literally 1-2 hours in one sitting while other times it takes months because something is missing that I can't find for a while in it. I did in less than an hour (mainly to learn about my new CUBASE 4 software); pretty mindless stuff. I keep a running library of "babble tapes" where I just sit on the piano or play guitar and just jam to myself. If I like something I try to convert it to a tune. I like all kinds of styles. Lately I've been thinking about orchestra scores for movies (Finale is a great program to write music). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmine457 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 im lisstening to music, think about the girl/guy who just broke up with mestart writing down sad ****, write guitar line then add the vocals, then bass, and finally drums. record it all by myself cause my band ditched me. thats a new song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myspace.com/jessenoah Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 first i play a G chord, then a C chord, then a D chord, and i play G minor penetonic solos all day what is a song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 The first line is situational. Something triggers a thought and I instantly start think of the thought in a literary way. I always have a tune stuck in my head too. At this moment, for example, "Babe I'm Going To Leave You" by Zep is firmly there. So I then take the lyrics and team them to the tune that is stuck in my head. When I've had a chance to write the first line and have the rhythm still stuck I work on the other lines and chorus. Sometimes the chorus is first. When It's all finished lyrically I pick up my guitar and change the original melody so as not to rip off someones song. Hell sometimes all the lyrics are done while driving home from work and I walk in pick up my acoustic and find some good tunes to mate with the music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked1 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I can't figure out the answer to this for myself! I've only written 10 or 12 songs, I think, and I'm not satisfied with most of those. But, for the couple that I think are "better" than the others...it seems to come with music first and words later. One I wrote on my own started as a strange little piano riff (I guess you'd call it that) and the words to the chorus of the song came to me as I was playing around with it. I then went to writing words for the verses and eventually worked out chords for that. The other started as a catchy little rhythm that Homz was working on with his acoustic and something clicked for me and I wrote lyrics to accompany it. My latest--and I can't decide if I like it or not--is one I wrote at work last night and it's currently lyrics only with maybe a vague idea for a melody. It started out more as a concept with some song inspirations floating around in my head along with some memories and some imagination thrown in. I was sort of free-associating ideas out of those songs stuck in my head and came up with an idea that I like and a couplet of lines that I thought would work. The rest came from there. Now either I have to sit down at the piano or I'm going to turn it over to Homz to work on some music. He's more creative with chords than I am. The majority of my other songs made up the little children's album that I recorded for my son (and eventually shared with several kids in the family). The first song on that also started out with music and the words came later. From there, I worked on trying to come up with concepts and lyrics to fit some different styles of music (blues, western, rap, and your standard sappy kids' fare). Hmm...I guess I just answered my own question. Apparently, it's usually the music that comes first. I think I end up getting too cheesy if I write a poem and try to set it to music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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